Dispatches from a Scamdemic

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BOTH SIDES NOW
My first law job was clerking for an appeals court judge.
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A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE
I grew up twenty miles from the George Washington Bridge, which connects New York City to New Jersey.
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September 2024

MEN ON A HOT SHINGLED ROOF
I’ve had multiple blue-collar jobs.
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9/11 AND THE SCAMDEMIC
Last week, I was talking with three people about the Scamdemic.
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THE WAY THEY WERE
It’s hard to score goals in professional ice hockey.
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COMING CLEAN
After writing against the lockdowns, school closings, masks, tests and shots from the day that each began, I must offer a confession:
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August 2024

THE ENDLESS SUMMER
As Summer 2024 winds down, I reflect below, in writing, as I have often in my mind, on the Coronamanic Summer of 2020.
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NOT FEELING MINNESOTA
Last week, I traveled to Minnesota for my first summer vacation in ten years.
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A TALE OF TWO TRAIN TRIPS
You can learn much about a culture via a mundane experience or two.
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BURDENED BY WHAT HAS BEEN
Early in my legal career, I represented a high-security prison that wanted to suspend, for six months, a guard who, while bored and sitting alone in a…
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THE GREEN REVOLUTION AND THE COVID RESPONSE
If, as on Family Feud, you asked a hundred people who know me to identify one of my characteristics, most might say that I talk too much about the…
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July 2024

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